Lottso! Deluxe rolls together bingo, lottery scratch cards, luck and competition. Because of its originality and combination of several games in one, I am rooting for this one to be a hit. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to expectations. I didn’t want to play the game anymore within an hour, but kept playing in [...]
But they did not give up lists successful people who were told they would not succeed. [Thanks, Lifehack] Designing Sidekicks for Fashion Target Breast Cancer. A little wild for my taste, but a great idea and cause. 6 Lies about Creative Writing. [...]
Priscilla Palmer’s Personal Development List contains a long list of blogs worth reading that touch on personal development. The extensive list already contains the blogs I enjoy (Adversity University, Today Is That Day, and Lifehack). Here are a couple more to add: Jenna Glatzer, Christina Katz, and Dawn Goldberg. They are all talented writers who share [...]
Taking cue from The One Minute Manager, Zapp!, Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese?, The Hamster Revolution uses a parable to show how to better manage and organize e-mail and information. The hamster represents people endlessly running on the wheel of e-mail. Right away, I start using concepts from the 90-minute book. Considering I’m an [...]
I enjoyed Hidden Expedition: Everest and recently tried Hidden Expedition: Titanic. Everest gripped me more than Titanic did. Nonetheless, both are good games and Astraware knows it as the premier small screen developers partner with BigFishGames to bring Hidden Expedition: Titanic to handheld devices. The hidden object game with the legendary Titanic theme allows players to [...]
I hadn’t planned on mentioning the new logo, but Andy Mason convinced me. He said he reads the blog through another client rather than on the site. When he left a comment for another entry, he discovered the new logo. So he suggested mentioning the new logo so those reading blog entries in a [...]
I believe that if a client makes you more miserable than happy, then it’s time to break up the relationship. But what if you’re concerned about the income from the client? Does it pay when the client causes you much grief and stress? That can affect your health, which means spending money on medicine and [...]
Every new release of an application adds more features, but not always for the better. Get ten tips for getting feature frenzy under control. In writing an article about social network sites, I looked at over two dozen sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Sermo, TravBuddy, MyCreativeCommunity. Wikipedia provides a list of many social networking [...]
In Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket, players aren’t the lucky lottery winner. In fact, the lottery winner runs into a little bad luck. Grandma Rose, owner of the winning lottery ticket, lost her ticket. I put on my P.I. fedora and take the case to help find the missing ticket. As an incentive, Grandma will pay [...]
I love Wikipedia, but I know it’s not 100% reliable and sometimes you need more than one resource. Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Can’t Do Without points to other resources. I started reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but wasn’t impressed. 10 Overrated Business Books (and [...]